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Uhh... You can get the 5D for under $2k without a rebate. link

Canon, where are thou 5D Mk II? The gauntlet has been thrown down by Nikon. You must awaken from your slumber to vanquish the beast!

I did a bunch of testing years ago on several of the mpeg-2 encoders / mpeg-2 recoders for shrinking a dual layer DVD to a single layer DVD. I also encoded the occasional DV file to DVD with a few of them.

Honestly, I'd just buy more tapes and keep the original tapes someplace cool with low humidity. I would not alter the video in any way. Keep it in 480i. Let the playback device do the upscaling / enhancing. MPEG-2 (DVD) at a very high bitrate is still the way to go assuming you use the right...

It is very likely 480i. You should keep it in 480i.

Not if he wants decent quality. He should stick to mpeg-2 since it can handle interlaced video nicely. I would recommend one of TMPEGenc's MPEG encoders / products. They're a little slow when setup up for maximum quality, but it has very, very, good quality output...

Did I miss something? :confused: When did a Tilt & Shift lens become the ultimate photographers tool?

You might be able to fit 4 LCDs on a desk. I'm not sure about 4 behemoth 100lb CRTs though.

Yes, but only via analog. Whoopteedoo! :p Only the most expensive one can drive 4 displays via digital.

Right quad DVI was $599. The cheaper cards only do two dual link DVI outputs, which a sub $200 ATI or nVidia card can do.

I have pretty good luck with rebates. A lot of the people on Slickdeals got their rebates from earlier this year when the same promotion was going on. A few who had problems called and got 'em cleared up easily. :confused:

$599? Are you kidding?

My first reaction is: Matrox is still in business?

I thought the trick was to always go over budget and say you're sorry later. If you finish up under budget they'll just cut it for next year. If you go over they might increase it next year.

I create a duplicate layer, then do a high pass at 1.0 and then overlay in PS at 50% usually.

Yes, absolutely. It's terrible.

Per the graphs on dpreview the 20D and 30D are slightly better than the XSi in terms of luminance noise. Chroma they are equal unless you turn off C.Fn II-4 on the XSi. Of course all the graphs are derived from JPEG files, not RAW. The review of the Rebel XTi has graphs comparing the JPEG...

I realize there are more pixels, but even zooming into 100% on both (sorta taking the extra pixels out of the equation) the XSi looks noticeably sharper on a pixel level. The 10D seemed cleaner in large flat areas at ISO100 too, but I haven't done a lot of comparing. Just a few shots. I...

I was a little surprised to see that my 10D has less noise in the RAW files at ISO400 than the XSi when converted using Canon's Digital Photo Professional. The XSi however is noticeably sharper at 100% zoom though, so that's probably why.

The M$ Live.com / Ebay cashback promotion. They were offering a 35% rebate on eBay "Buy it Now" purchases paid through Paypal for a day or two last week that was capped at $250 per transaction (with a 60 day wait to get your money). So, I will get $250 back in 54 days for my $739.99 shipped...

Me too. I hope I get my $489 worth out of it. :D

Many years ago a local camera store handled shipping my Elan IIe back to Canon after the local repair shop screwed it up after several repair attempts. Personally, I wouldn't want to use the original box. I would want to wrap the camera in bubble wrap (the kind with the 1" bubbles) and then...

I guess it's time to come out of the closet so to speak. My 5 year old EOS 10D now has a friend.

Someone should give you a film body to use for a day with only 36 shots and see what you get. No chimping, no deleting pictures, no taking hundreds of pictures.

I don't see the connection, but anywhoo.

Not anymore... The dollar is worth slightly more than the Loony.

Wimp! :p You can get 3 8GB cards for $61 after rebate now ($67 x 3 -$140). They just lowered the price a few bucks. That's only $20.33 per card.

Seems like it's a known issue. From some Newegg reviews: There are a lot more similar reviews. My two work great with my Intel ICH9R chipset.

You have a nForce Chipset?

How do you figure? I have used 1GB cards for years with a 6MP EOS 10D without any complaints. The RAW files were about 7MB meaning I can fit ~140 on a card. In contrast, the Rebel XSi has 12MB (RAW) and 16MB (RAW+JPEG) files. That would be ~250 (RAW + JPEG) or ~340 (RAW) images on a 4GB...

You think they use torches for street lamps in the Philippines? :p

I you want to get really technical it's a Field of View (FOV) crop since it really doesn't change the effective focal length of the lens, but it's much easier to think about it as a focal length multiplier.

Isn't it just a 1.5x multiplier? Aperture is unchanged.

If you guys are feeling adventurous and don't have a fear of rebates... Check out this deal! The best deal is the 3 4GB Extreme III SDHC cards for $15.97 total after rebate ($41.99 * 3 - $110 rebate). :eek: The 4GB Extreme III cards rank pretty high in terms of speed, and $5.32 each is pretty...

Nah... They want to make it a national epidemic so they can control what we eat next. They've already started.

Shhh... Just remember that we'll just keep redefining obese so the numbers look bad regardless.

I would have "borrowed" it from Usenet before buying it and finding out you're SOL.

Hey, don't listen to us. Try it and see.

I didn't say that. Frankly they both suck. But, we don't need a Housing bail out. We don't need to extend unemployment benefits 13 weeks. Neither political party can control their spending. :mad:

But does the acceleration work under non-Vista OS's?

Just remember what political party brought you this bill next time you're at the ballot box.

Because your CPU is not fast enough to playback the movies without heavy assistance from the GPU, and nVidia doesn't make any AGP cards that can do the assistance. ATI does, but my understanding is that the acceleration only works under Vista (but I haven't kept up on it really close over the...

Any results to report?

You're pretty much out of luck with an AGP system not running Vista, and I'm not sure even that will do it.

Can't complain about a 5 year warranty and 333GB platters.

Cause it's Nikon and special? :confused:

I have a stack of them now. Got 8 of them for about $55 a little more than a week ago.

I haven't bought very many Blu-Ray discs myself. I rent quite a few of them from Netflix. There are some decent titles on Blu-Ray beyond SM and SM2. The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Casino Royale, Underworld, etc...

First, it's a PS3, not an xbox3. The xbox 360 does not have a blu-ray drive and can't play Blu-Ray discs. The PS3 has a blu-ray drive and can play 'em. Second, I have Blu-Ray & HD-DVD playback in my HTPC. That Lite-On drive is by no means a complete solution. There are necessary CPU, video...

You could test it yourself. :D They basically tell you how they do it.